The book presented here is the first work of Western literary criticism to examine the Hindi laghukathā - a modern Indian prose genre that has been published since the 1970s in Hindi newspapers and magazines and is characterised by its concise form (500 words on average) and socio-political agenda. The importance of the genre within the Hindi literary scene lies in the fact that the laghukathā is based on indigenous genres which have been modernised, whereas the Hindi short story and the novel are Western genres that have been appropriated and Indianised.
A thorough...
The book presented here is the first work of Western literary criticism to examine the Hindi laghukathā - a modern Indian prose genre that has...
Die beiden groen Epen des (alten) Indiens, das Mahābhārata und das Rāmāyaņa, sind in einer Sprache verfat, die sich in vielen Einzelheiten von der Hochsprache des (sog.) klassischen Sanskrit unterscheidet. Die Grammar of Epic Sanskrit bietet nun zum ersten Mal, und dies auf der Grundlage der beiden kritischen Editionen, eine (moglichst) vollstandige Zusammenstellung solcher Abweichungen. In aller Regel ist dabei der Kontext, in dem eine unregelmaige Form oder Konstruktion steht, im Originaltext und in Ubersetzung gegeben. Damit transparent wird, wie es zur...
Die beiden groen Epen des (alten) Indiens, das Mahābhārata und das Rāmāyaņa, sind in einer Sprache verfat, die sich in vie...
The grammar presents a full decription of Pali, the language used in the Theravada Buddhist canon, which is still alive in Ceylon and South-East Asia. The development of its phonological and morphological systems is traced in detail from Old Indic. Comprehensive references to comparable features and phenomena from other Middle Indic languages mean that this grammar can also be used to study the literature of Jainism.
The grammar presents a full decription of Pali, the language used in the Theravada Buddhist canon, which is still alive in Ceylon and South-East As...
